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The SolarWinds Orion Installer is an all-in-one application for installations and upgrades. You use one installer to install or upgrade multiple Orion Platform products and install or upgrade Additional Polling Engines, Additional Web Servers, and High Availability Servers.

New to Server & Application Monitor (SAM)

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New to Server & Application Monitor (SAM)

Did You Know

SAM provides out-of-the-box templates for Microsoft Office 365. Even if your email servers moved to the cloud, you still need to monitor email and cloud connectivity. Leverage these templates to watch Exchange mailboxes, traffic, and network availability, along with security, mobile device, and subscription renewal statistics.

The SolarWinds Orion Installer provides an easy-to-follow installation path for your environment, and guides you through the product installation. The installer checks for product updates, and then presents installation steps to help you complete the installation with ease.

This guide has instructions for discovering your devices, along with reporting. Once the initial system is in place, learn about common techniques to optimize your alerts, reports, maps and views so that you are able to create your perfect system.

Sign up for Professional Series Classes, specifically Introduction to the Orion Platform, Configuring the Orion Platform and Introduction to SAM. * (active maintenance only)

Customers on Active maintenance receive additional training classes and videos to help you create the perfect system for your needs. Learn More.

Don't see what you're looking for?

Check out the Success Center (our Support, Training, and Documentation hub). - It's your resource to assist you through the implementation process. We offer many articles and videos on how to get started.